The hospital, Camden's largest employer, has tried to provide a lift for the blighted city, but it is a tall task.

This will help reduce the terrible pressure that local governments face in financing much-needed services, particularly in our blighted cities.

I would write a profile of the world's most blighted city.

As governor, he says he has focused on making a difference in two critical areas - revitalizing Connecticut's blighted cities and improving its education system.

Then there would be a brisk exit from the blighted city, with a car towing an assortment of furniture, tools, pets and sometimes children.

But while just about everybody agrees that Montreal is in trouble, comparing its problems with those of America's blighted cities may be overdrawn.

As a roving ambassador for the blighted inner cities, he has planted hope amid the ruins.

Of the $30 billion the Senate would spend over five years, only about $6 billion would go to blighted cities.

As mayor of New Brunswick from 1979 to 1991, he was credited with reviving the blighted city.

Mary Patton found that even in Charlotte - hardly America's most blighted city - accepting Government assistance could be risky.